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Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader. Click to read Engineering Leadership, by Gregor Ojstersek, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Blissful unawareness, denial, then acceptance, then resistance. And finally, a pragmatic middle ground. This is the typical journey engineers go through in their relationship with tech debt. It's tempting to get straight to the point: how to remove tech debt, and how to keep it at bay. But that would

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The Curiosity Chronicle has quickly become one of the most popular newsletters for growth-minded individuals in the world. Each week, subscribers receive a deep dive that covers topics ranging from growth and decision-making to business, finance, startups, and technology. In addition, subscribers receive The Friday Five, a weekly newsletter with five ideas curated to spark curiosity headed into the weekend.

Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO, on taste over metrics, product teams over product managers, strategy over OKRs, plus craft, profitability, and ownership

Most, if not all, developers are at least somewhat familiar with the concept of caching. After all, this technology is so ubiquitous nowadays, from CPU to browser caching, that all software relies …

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Final part of a series exploring application autoscaling in Kubernetes

Engineers at all levels are encouraged to embrace curiosity, showcasing that asking questions, can pave the way for innovation and deeper understanding. Remember, the right question at the right time can be the catalyst for groundbreaking advancements in technology.

Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"

This blog explains different types of automation testing along with their benefits and best practices. Also we have discussed different frameworks and tools at the end.

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Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?

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React Server Components are changing the fundamental paradigms of React. Learn how Next.js handles the complexities and improves the performance of your applications.

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Why is it so hard to do great work at scale?

In tech, switching jobs almost always comes with either a financial or a title upside. However, it doesn’t always come with both. Switching for higher compensation can result in a “lower” title, like going from Senior Software Engineer to SWE 2 or VP Engineering to Senior Engineering Manager. This

Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off, at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy. It won’t be clear what they mean, but they will want it, really, really badly. If we just had an engineering strategy, their eyes will implore you, things would be okay. For a long time, those imploring eyes haunted me, because I simply didn’t know what to give them: what is an engineering strategy?

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Conflict Free Replicated Data types (CRDTs) can be tricky. You may spend months reading papers and implementing different algorithms before they finally click and become simple. That or they'll seem simple out of the gate and you'll be missing a bunch…

This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools.